Hilltopper

I knew that eventually someone would end up on my Ignore List.

This is the best Ianello story yet. I learned about him from this article than all the others put together. There is hope!

Thats a good question. I would guess there were over 200 at the end of the year banquet and around 100 at the golf outing. Good luck and if you make it happen I will be there.

Let us know when you get back from Fantasy Island!

Nothing against Akron, but if you are comparing Akron to Pittsburgh's urban decay!?!....you have lost your mind. You have obviously not been to Pittsburgh in this decade. Pittsburgh is home to NHL, NFL & MLB, plus Duquesne and the University of Pittsburgh. Consol Energy Center-of the Penguins is brand new, PNC Park, Heinz Field, and the Petersen Event Center are all newer. The Rivers casino is brand new, and is awesome. They have beautiful waterfronts, Duquesne and Monongahela Inclines, Zoo, Aquarium, Conservatory, Botanical Gardens, Station Square and the Stript district. Pittsburgh is the world record holder for bridges (446) within city limits, beating out Venice, Italy, the previous record holder by 3 bridges. I would not lump Pittsburgh in with your urban decay examples. Maybe you should change your screen name to Dr PittZip!

I get it that a nice country club setting is preferred and I'm thrilled to hear it's well attended. Do you think having a dinner or cookout with some speakers including Coach D would be a well attended financially productive addition to the Men's fundraising efforts? Perhaps you should call Amanda Aller and request a meeting with coach Dambrot to present your idea to him. I would imagine if someone was willing to put the work into setting up such an event, KD would be glad to attend.

Having the event start early is better on a weekday, leaving the opportunity for the participants to still get to the office for part of the day. If you're trying to attract large $$ donors you don't hold your event at a run of the mill public golf course. Most country clubs are closed on Mondays and do not host non-member events on weekends. The players have not attended this event in the past. They are in school.

Do you think they broadcast those games for free?

Go to Google Ad Preferences to manage yours.

That is the way you keep a happy fan base. Glad to see someone step up and make things right.

Kind of like preaching to the choir. If the ad is focused on Wagner, it's a good one. Now carry that theme throughout the city. Make it visible to Zips fans that aren't fanatics. The ones that would be on the edge if they started winning, or it was a nice day and they had nothing to do. Push those folks out the door. When you place that kind of advertisement with Google, they ask you what Key Words you want their search engine to look for. I would hope that they include anyone who reads the sports sections of Ohio.com, TheRep.com and Cleveland.com. The advertiser is charged for each time someone clicks on the banner ad.

Anyplace would be better for the Zips broadcasts than that joke of a station.

That advertising is called Google Ad Words. Those banner ads are presented directly to you based on your internet use history. Not everyone who goes to that site sees the Zips ticket offer. Only people like you who have shown that they might be interested, based on their surfing history. If you didn't spend time at ZN.O or Gozips.com, you would never see the ad. Do an experiment and start shopping for a new car. If you concentrate on one type of car, pretty soon ads for that car will follow you all over the internet.

Sounds like a leader to me. We definately need a leader at QB.

Is this how every thread is going to be from now on?

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I like to visit old restaurants and bars when I return to the area. I remember Yokono's is in the area..maytry that again for lunch on Monday after I stop at the WPM. Thanks Yocono's was sold a few years back and is nowhere near the same place it was when owned by the family. They were shutdown for a while earlier this year for failing to pay their taxes. Larry's Main Entrance would be my choice of a Walhaven eating place. any restaurant that doesn't accept credit/debit cards is asking for trouble. Not sure what you mean there BY. Larrys take all forms of payment, did you mean Yocono's? BTW, Luigis only takes cash or checks. Good luck getting a table there on a weekend.

I like to visit old restaurants and bars when I return to the area. I remember Yokono's is in the area..maytry that again for lunch on Monday after I stop at the WPM. Thanks Yocono's was sold a few years back and is nowhere near the same place it was when owned by the family. They were shutdown for a while earlier this year for failing to pay their taxes. Larry's Main Entrance would be my choice of a Walhaven eating place.

I absolutely love this tread and I can't believe more people aren't posting. The more you read about this case, the more you realized how out of control college athletics has become on every level. Are the players corrupt, or has the arms race in the form of building one facility after another caused this environment? College kids are college kids (not just athletes) and if you put a free hooker in front of one of them (imagine the quality of hooker one can get in Maimi), there is going to be some sex going on in 99% of the cases. College kids are not able to resist the temtations presented to them. A kid who grows up in a ghetto, in most cases, is not going to turn down a ride on a million dollar yacht in Miami, or a free $1,000 per hour hooker, or a dinner at a high end steak house, or anything else ("Is there a bigger racial divide in American than the difference between the players playing college football and the high end donors?" Mrs. GP1, the luckiest woman in the world). Universities have spent millions in building facilities. Ashland University just spent $20 on athletic facilities for a D II school....a D II school... and $70 million on school buildings...talk about a school that doesn't have its priorities straight. The money doesn't fall out of the sky...it has to be raised. At a school like Miami (and there are others like Miami), there aren't that many high end donors so if you find one, you let him basically do whatever he wants in order to keep up with the Jones. If you don't, you are finished. What's the ncaa's solution to this problem it doesn't see as a problem? Create more rules preventing the kids who have no chance of turning down a free hooker from getting the free hooker. It seems to me that the arms race has created the problem, not the players. If the people at the ncaa had a combined half a brain, they would restrict the "building processes" at these schools that are at the core of the problem. The players aren't at the core of the problem. The problems are the athletic departments who haven't seen a stadium building project they would turn down and the ncaa who is obsessed with making college athletics bigger and bigger at any cost. Nobody will say it, but that's the problem. It's so out of control now that no control can be established and every off season we are going to hear these stories until the ncaa reforms or is eliminated. The main stories of college football are now about teams in a scandal and not, you know, actual college football. It's terrible for college football. I agree with you 100%. The kids are not the problem. ESPN is an enabler for this crap. I watched their "Panel of experts" try and explain why the BCS should stay the other night, what a joke.

Is that Nick Sparks in the photo?

A lot have closed practices. This isn't 1960 anymore. I fixed it for ya!

I'm with Zipwatcher on this one. It really puts all the emphasis on winning the regular season. At this point in time, I think it gives an advantage to any team in the West division that can run the table on the weaker teams in that division. Being able to play 2 games against Toledo, NIU and Eastern is not the same as playing 2 against the majority of the teams in the East.

I posted this in the other thread, but this is big enough for its own thread. It will be interesting to see how the NCAA handles this one. Yahoo Sports rocks! Why Miami is in trouble Renegade Miami football booster spells out illicit benefits to players

Add the Miami Hurricanes to the list of cheaters. Renegade Miami football booster spells out illicit benefits to players

What was the final score?